Warning! Do no even think about pitching your tent too close to a Bunyip hole. The Bunyip may rise up, thumping and splashing out of the water, and destroy everything, and everybody who is camped nearby.

Stoves, clothes, sleeping bags, fishing poles, and tents will fly in every direction while the terrified campers or fishers make a run for safety. Then, satisfied that everyone is gone, the Bunyip will slip happily back into its watery home. A Bunyip does not like anyone near its billabong.

Bunyips live in deep water-holes, called billabongs, all across Australia. The aborigines warned the first Europeans who came to their land about this monster.

The Bunyip has slimy weeds for hair, a long flat tail, and a huge head. Others just think that it looks weird and with its wide webbed-hands, slimy big feet, and ugly scaly skin dripping with muck, you would not want to invite a Bunyip over to your campfire.

One story tells of a fisher that caught a baby Bunyip. Even though his friends begged him to let it go, he did not. When the mother Bunyip found her baby gone, she caused the water to rise until the land was covered, and her baby floated back to her.